Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77936cf03f236688…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-08-17 00:15:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: a67c59db7003eef33623509a89e6c0b4 SHA-1: 4d2f262268d391c515f67f1337de358cb17bda79 SHA-256: 77936cf03f2366881dc656746062b0d135041df4cb0ccdb0197cfc1da153ff9d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics further supports this, with links hosted on various domains, some of which appear to be compromised WordPress uploads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/49850195728.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a4805a701---83552642024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file///2021052016125762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elisa5888.com/shopadmin/upload/files/19506668579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca1fc308d3---17472079534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/83299658251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doublehaircenter.com/upload/ckfinder/files/62640395219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a720b9001fb---30301869894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinhlytailieuluutru.com/media/ftp/file/moketotutuzexizojojesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalrep.com/userfiles/files/zanud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donateagift.eu/userfiles/file/navitubusoxaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katyababash.com/images/uploads/file/tasoxute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://floridare.ru/app/webroot/img/uploads/file/021006_bekakufabekuxamekugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://101balkon.ru/upload/files/meridomipozabirenumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c142c71ade401129b72f9ec2c9b0533/5237284315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palcev.ru/userfiles/file/6302020174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82f6e8040df989937ad875362ef4392c/linapajudivol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fl5jubppnpn6ud61tgnbm60j0g/56013664418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signika.pl/Upload/file/73097922117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loca-granderoue-montaletang.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tugapirepurevubabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/017ef1faae9cad1982e0f30744f43107/43793718176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/283dfa71dd5a45b4672506735cbc7539/buzijamudopasiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebco.ru/images/file/70183954719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e60bb92e35a24e8b83a340b617c37ddd/godanived.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=eragon+pdf+download+itaPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e406.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE406 20056 bytes
SHA-256: 6581b66ec34c59aebd5509411f18c62d76c7d7d0c2b9b1b58d57010b95965083
font_01_sfnt_off0001175c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1175C 10440 bytes
SHA-256: fd909c6950aa64df6b87429682d6ee60dae1fed0f5deb607b13966265be20b78
font_02_sfnt_off00012ee7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EE7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1